
Honeydew
by Edith Pearlman
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Pub Date Feb 24 2015 | Archive Date Feb 21 2015
Hachette Australia | John Murray
Description
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The new collection of stories from the author of the award-winning Binocular Vision.
Honeydew is the first collection from Edith Pearlman since Binocular Vision, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a 'spectacular literary revelation'.
Over the last few decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the great practitioners of the short story. Her understanding and skill have earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike and Alice Munro. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration.
The stories in Honeydew are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people, of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth. Whether the characters are Somalian women who've suffered circumcision, a special child with pentachromatic vision or a staid professor of Latin unsettled by a random invitation to lecture on the mystery of life and death, Pearlman knows each of them intimately and reveals them with generosity.
Advance Praise
"Our greatest living American short story writer" Boston Globe
“Honeydew seems likely to solidify [Pearlman’s] place in the literary firmament.” The New York Times
“Honeydew should cement [Pearlman’s] reputation as one of the most essential short story visionaries of our time.” The New York Times Book Review
“There remain a few dedicated practitioners of the short story, and Edith Pearlman is one to be cherished… the 20 stories [in Honeydew] are vinegary, rueful, droll, humane and endlessly inquisitive. Though intricately constructed, they are slight in drama and emphasis, set down like a light footprint that nevertheless fixes itself in one’s memory as though pressed in wet cement.” The Wall Street Journal
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781444797022 |
PRICE | A$29.99 (AUD) |